152 stories by "Ludlow Lad"
The legendary theater auteur, Richard Foreman, returns to film - some thirty-something years after the brilliant Strong Medicine (which can be viewed here). ONCE EVERY DAY will have its pre…
1. THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHUANCan we practice goodness and create a world to sustain it? In Brecht's comic and complex play, this question is raised by one of his most enterta…
When an upwardly mobile African-American couple wants to buy a home in an all-white neighborhood of 1950's Boston, they pay a struggling Irish family to "ghost-buy" a house on their behalf. …
We're glad that we are not the only people who are REALLY excited to see the return of Nature Theater of Oklahoma to NYC with their epic: Life and Times.To tide you over until next week, her…
Between 1977 and 1993 Stuart Sherman produced approximately 30 short films, the longest of which is 12 minutes (most clock in under three minutes, with several lasting only a matter of sec…
Kelley Copper and Pavol Liska are Nature Theater of Oklahoma. Nature Theater of Oklahoma has made some of the best works of theater in the past 10 years: No Dice, Poetics, Rambo Solo and Ro…
Charles Busch is set to star in The Peccadillo Theater Company's upcoming staged reading of Sidney Howard's 1926 play THE SILVER CORD Monday, January 14 at 7 PM at Theatre at St. Clement's, …
Inflatable FrankensteinRadioholeInfluenced by James Whale's Frankenstein films, Radiohole explodes the tumultuous and tragic life of Mary Shelley. Blood chilling and completely strange, Infl…
The first thing to see in 2013 is Radiohole's INFLATABLE FRANKENSTEIN which will premiere at The Kitchen on January 5th and run through the 19th. We are loving this teaser for the show: In…
If you listen to Nature Theater of Oklahoma's OK Radio you would know about 53rd State Press...53rd State Press publishes new plays and performance texts that interrogate, challenge, renew, …
20 Favorite Shows of 2012: 1. Mission Drift (The TEAM/COIL Festival @ Connolly Theater)The TEAM isn't afraid to tackle big issues, and their epic musical about the history of capitalis…
We'll be posting our 20 Favorite Shows of 2012 in the coming days. In the meantime, here are 14 shows we saw in 2012 that deserved recognition. The Honorable Mentions List for 2012:(in alph…
The resourceful Brick Theater in Williamsburg is celebrating their 10th Anniversary by bringing back a few of their popular offerings, among them: Bouffon Glass Menajoree and NECROPOLIS 1+2:…
January has become THE most important month for contemporary performance in NYC. Under The Radar, COIL and American Realness festivals have made January hot.Let's take a look and what …
Tickets for the 2013 Under The Radar Festival will go in sale on Tuesday, November 27th. Here are some highlights of this year's offerings:Hollow RootsWritten by Christina AndersonDire…
Reid Farrington's A Christmas Carol returns to Abrons Arts Center this holiday season. This year, downtown legend Everett Quinton is on hand for the festivities. Farrington uses his signatu…
The marvelous Transport Group will be hosting a rare personal appearance by Jonathan Franzen after the Thursday, November 15th performance of Daniel Fish's adaptation of Franzen's HOUSE FO…
We are LOVING this trailer for Toneelgroep Amsterdam's production of Roman Tragedies By William Shakespeare, directed by Ivo van Hove!BAM presents Roman TragediesBy William ShakespeareToneel…
Soho Rep presents We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915
Austin, TX's awesome Rude Mechanicals return to NYC in November to present their faithful re-staging of The Performance Group's 1968 landmark production, itself based on The Bacchae (got tha…
Billed as "an electro-pop opera ripped from a scandalous slice of Tolstoy's War an Peace," Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 has the cred of Dave Malloy who wrote Beowulf " A Tho…
The invaluable Target Margin will dedicate it's 2012-2013 season to exploring Yiddish theater. First up is their terrific TM Lab, at The Brick from October 17 - November 3, presenting n…
The Flea presents A.R. Gurney's view of the near-future via-a-vie politics, religion and immaculate conception. This world premiere is directed by Flea Artistic Director, Jim Simson and the …
Two short plays, each directed by each-other's author. The playwright-directors are Neil LaBute and Marco Calvani. Throw Estelle Parsons, Larry Pine and Craig Bierko into the mix and you've …
Charlie Victor Romeo is not for the faint of heart. CVR also stands for cockpit voice recorder and this show is reenactments of the final minutes of several airline disasters. Yo…
